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Martha Grimes walks into a pub : essays on a writer with a load of mischief / edited by Sarah D. Fogle.
LIBRA PS3557.R48998 Z78 2011
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Grimes, Martha--Criticism and interpretation.
- Grimes, Martha.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- vii, 198 pages ; 23 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Jefferson, N.C. : McFarland, [2011]
- Summary:
- "This collection of ten critical essays provides an in-depth analysis of Grimes' oeuvre, principally the Richard Jury, Emma Graham, and Andi Oliver series. The essays address Grimes' themes of parental abandonment, loneliness, obsession, greed, mistaken and dual identity, the resilience of children, stunted romantic relationships and animal cruelty"--Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Martha Grimes and the English pub / Marcia J. Songer
- "You're always away when the ax-murderers come": the plight of disposable children / Deane Mansfield-Kelley and Lois A. Marchino
- The significance of place / Mary Alice Money
- "A play for us all": Medea and the Spirit Lake novels / Amy Hausser
- Identity, simulacra, and the hyperreal: detectives, murders, and victims / Rhonda Knight
- The woman's way: gender and fictional style / Nancy Eliot Parker
- Humor, murder and the ludicrous in human behavior / Mimosa Stephenson
- Fear of commitment: Richard Jury, Melrose Plant, and women / Sherry Ginn
- Emma Graham, detective quest hero / Sarah D. Fogle
- Mystery, murder, misery and meat / Diane Calhoun-French.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780786442867
- 0786442867
- OCLC:
- 659753695
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